Faculty Research Interests
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Faculty Member |
Phenomenon of Interest |
Populations of Interest |
Methods |
Faculty Role |
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Andrea Archer |
Health Promotion, Veterans transitioning to civilian life, Children in foster care |
Veterans, Children in Foster Care, Aging out of foster care |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Cynthia M. Archibald
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HIV/AIDS Prevention Research, Team Science, Risky Sexual Behaviors and Behavior Change |
Adolescents in Church Community, Afro Caribbean, and African American populations |
Intervention Studies, Qualitative and Quantitative Comparative Modeling, Community-Based Participatory Research, Mixed Methods |
Graduate Practicum Directed Study, Doctoral Students, Research Projects, Dissertation Chair/Committees, Faculty Mentoring |
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Charlotte D. Barry
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Caring in Nursing, Teaching/Learning Caring from Nursing Situations, Caring Ability, Heart Math, Usefulness of Theory Guided Practice, Health Disparities, Outcomes of School Based Health, Wellness Centers in Global Communities Uganda and Haiti |
Students, Under-served and vulnerable populations |
Qualitative Research Methodology: |
Teaching Across the Curriculum, Mentoring Faculty, Student Advisement, Student Supervision in Dissertation and DNP Projects, Chair Promotion & Tenure Committee |
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Cynthia A. Blum
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Women experience loss of spouse through divorce, Women experiencing marital discord and stress/health changes, Academic and Professional Nursing Educational Methods |
Divorcees (females), Women who are newly separated |
Intervention Studies, Community-Based, Participatory Research, Quantitative/ Qualitative Design |
Undergraduate Directed Study, Graduate Research Projects, Doctoral Student, Research Project, Dissertation Committee, Faculty Mentoring |
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Anne Boykin |
Caring in nursing; Caring in healthcare settings; the lived experience of caring |
Healthcare settings and healthcare providers |
Qualitative |
Dean and Professor Emeritus |
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Howard Karl Butcher |
Holistic Nursing, Nursing Theory Guided Research, Caring Science, Rogers Science of Unitary Human Beings, Nursing Standardized Languages, Nursing Intervention Classification |
Family Caregivers, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Depression/Dispiritedness in Later Life |
Nursing Intervention Classification, Intervention Development and Testing Research, Telomere Research, Narrative (story), Descriptive Phenomenology, Hermeneutic, Thematic Analysis |
Faculty Mentoring, Dissertation Committee Chair/Member, PhD Student Advisement, PhD Student Research, Practicum Mentoring |
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Katherine Lynn Chadwell |
HIV prevention, safe sexual practices, symptoms, menopause, neuroscience, flourishing, genomics, epigenetics |
College students, adults, older adults, women |
Quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods, Secondary data analysis |
Associate Professor |
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Lenny Chiang-Hanisko
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Polypharmacy and Medication Practice, Transcultural Nursing Care |
Older & Ethnically Diverse Adults, Immigrants, Culturally Diverse Adults |
Mixed Method Design: PQ Method, Qualitative Methods: Grounded Theory, Ethnography, Phenomenology |
Undergraduate Directed Study, Graduate Research Projects, Doctoral Student, Research Project, Dissertation Committee |
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Lynne Dunphy
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Nursing's Intellectual/Theoretical Development; Gender & Science, The Polio Epidemics, Specifically the Iron Lung - Nurses and Technological Advanced, Nursing Workforce Policy, Primary Care Delivery models; Innovation; Quality Indicators |
Nurse Thinkers, Past & Present, context of the times in which their thinking emerged; Polio Patients & Health Care Providers; Healthcare Workforce; Primary Care |
Historical/ Theoretical Analysis; Critical Social & Feminist Theory; Historical/Textual Analysis; Population Surveys; State-level Data; Nationwide Research Sampling; Patient Outcome Data |
Graduate Directed Independent Studies, Graduate/Doctoral Research Projects (1-3 credits), Chair Dissertation/Comps, Serve on Committees, Faculty Research Advising & Mentoring |
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Karethy A. Edwards
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Health Disparities, Integrated Primary & Behavioral Health, Integrated Health Modalities, Culturally Tailored Interventions to Prevent Diabetes & Hypertension Related Complications |
African Americans, Native American Indians, Underserved Populations |
Community-Based Participatory Research, Ethnography |
Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Executive Director FAU/NCHA Community Health Center |
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Terry Lynn Eggenberger
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Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice, Communication and Teamwork/Team Science, Leadership Development, Integrating Caring Science into Simulation |
Health Care Professionals/Teams, Charge Nurses, Organizational Systems |
Qualitative, Mixed Method Design |
Doctoral Student Research Projects, Doctoral Committee Member, Graduate Directed Independent Study |
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Nancey E. France
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Incivility/horizontal violence in Nursing; Measurement of Caring; Heart Math Technique as an Intervention; Complementary healing modalities; Creating healing environments; Caring science |
Adults |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Phenomenology, Community-Based Participatory Research (community engagement), Mixed Method Design |
Undergraduate Directed Study, Graduate Research Projects (1-3 credits), Doctoral student research project, Dissertation committee |
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Safiya George
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Promote the Health & Holistic well-being of Individuals w/ or at Risk for HIV/AIDS, Holistic Health, Spirituality, HIV, Neuroscience |
People Living w/ HIV/ AIDS; Adolescents |
Evidenced-Based Psychological Interventions (Focused on Social Determinants of Health), Quantitative, Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Neuroimaging |
Dean of College of Nursing, Interim Associate Dean for Research |
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Shirley C. Gordon
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Expressions of Caring in Nursing, Impact of Algae Blooms on Human Health, Caring for Persons with Stigmatized, Chronic Health Conditions including Persistent Head Lice, Genital Herpes, Facial Muscle Weakness, and Diabetes |
School Aged Children, Families, Adults and Older Adults in Underserved Populations |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Grounded Theory and Phenomenology, Community-Based Participatory Research (Community Engagement), Focused Inquiry |
Graduate & Doctoral Research Projects (1-3 credits), Dissertation, Chair/Committee Faculty Research Advising |
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Sareen S Gropper |
Health Promotion, Healthy Aging, Diet and Lifestyle Factors Associated with Unhealthy Body Fat and Weight Gain, Role of Diet and/or Nutrients in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease |
Children, Adolescents, Adults |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology for Assessment and Intervention Studies |
Undergraduate Directed Study research projects, Graduate (Masters and Doctoral) Research Projects as a committee member or chair |
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Debra Jo Hain
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Health disparities, structural racism, kidney health, diabetes, cognitive impairment, behavioral interventions |
Ethnically diverse adults |
Qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods |
Professor, Graduate Coordinator AGNP Concentration |
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Nancy Lee Harris |
Harmful Algae Blooms and Human Health: Reducing Morbidity and Mortality of Pheochromocytoma |
Adults exposed to HABs in Central Florida; Adults Diagnosed with Pheochromocytoma |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Community-based Participatory Research: Phenomenology, Mixed Methods |
Doctoral Research Projects; HBOI Campus Coordinator |
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Dawn M. Hawthorne |
Use of Spiritual Coping Strategies by Parents whose Infant/Child had Died in the Neonatal or Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Stories of parents whose infant has died to create healing. Differences in the use of Spiritual Practices on the Mental Health of mother - father dyads of very low-birthweight infants |
Parents of Infant/Child whose Death Occurred in the Neonatal or Pediatric Intensive Unit. Parents of an infant who has died at home/ hospital. Parents of Premature Infants below 32 weeks Gestation |
Mixed Method Design Quantitative Multiple Regression Longitudinal Study, Qualitative Study guided by theory- guided story inquiry (Smith & Liehr, 2014), Mixed Method Design, Longitudinal, Quantitative, Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) |
Graduate clinical projects, Doctoral student research project, Dissertation committee member |
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Katherine Heinze |
Supporting families caring for a seriously ill child; bioethics; palliative care; moral resilience |
Children with cancer and their families; healthcare inter-professionals |
Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, psychometrics |
Undergraduate courses and master's research |
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Tarsha Jones
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Reducing breast cancer health disparities; Genetics; Epigenetics; Psychosocial Stressors and Breast Cancer |
Minority women; Black and Hispanic Women with a personal and/or family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer |
Qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, secondary data analysis |
Undergraduate courses and research projects (special topics) |
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Kathryn B. Keller
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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, Integrating Caring Science, Arrhythmia Nursing Knowledge & ECG Monitoring Concepts |
Health Care Teams |
Qualitative, Mixed Methods |
Doctoral Dissertation Chair/Committee, Graduate Directed Independent Study, Teachers across programs, Faculty mentoring |
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Beth M King
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Measurement of Caring, Teaching Methodologies for Caring Science, Mental Health, Heart Math as an Intervention for Depression, Anxiety and Stress |
Vulnerable Populations, Nursing Education/Faculty/Students, Persons experiencing Mental Health Issues |
Assessment Studies, Quantitative Methods: Between-group Repeated Measures, Quasi-Experimental Design, Descriptive Survey, Qualitative: Heideggerian Hermeneutic Phenomenology |
Undergraduate/Graduate clinical projects, DNP Capstone Committee Chair, PhD Committee Chair |
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Cheryl Ann Krause-Parello
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Animal-Assisted Interventions, Human-Animal Interaction, Physiologic stress biomarkers, Psychosocial stress indicators, Suicide Prevention and Protective Factors, Community Engagement, Child welfare, Public Policy |
Military, Veterans, Military and Veteran Families, Children |
Quantitative (descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs), Qualitative (phenomenological design; interview and focus group collection measures), Community-based participatory research
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Sharon Phillips Raddock Distinguished Professor of Holistic Health, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH), Director, C-P.A.W.W. Canines Providing Assistance to Wounded Warriors®, Research, Teaching, Service, and Community Engagement, Faculty Mentoring, Student Mentoring, Doctoral Student Research, Undergraduate Student Research, PhD Comprehensive Committee Member, Dissertation Committee Member |
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Mary Ann Leavitt
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Transitional care of patients with heart failure to prevent hospital readmissions, The development of non-invasive wearable cardiac sensor devices to alert for heart failure decompensation, Team science |
Older adults with heart failure |
Quantitative and qualitative testing of nursing interventions, Data mining and device development in collaboration with Engineering faculty |
Didactic teaching across all Med-Surg courses; Chronic, Acute, and Complex, First Year Experience Success in Learning, Honors in Nursing Seminar |
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Rozzano Locsin |
artificial intelligence, robots in Nursing, issues and concerns regarding nursing of persons who are dependent on technologies, caring, and Nursing |
older persons, and persons with chronic illnesses, and those who are dependent on technologies for human living |
phenomenological research approaches; descriptive, interpretive, and hermeneutic |
Professor Emeritus |
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Joy Ann Longo
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Horizontal Violence/Bullying in the Workplace, Practice Environments, Patient Safety Culture, Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Vignettes |
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Quantitative Methods: Experimental, Non-experimental Instrument Development Qualitative Methods |
Undergraduate Scholarly Inquiry, Graduate & Doctoral Research Projects, DNP Projects, Comprehensive Exam and Dissertation Chair/Committee |
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Kyndall Mammah |
Decreasing Disparities in Underrepresented Groups in Nursing, Increasing the Numbers of Men & Minorities in Nursing to Improve, Health Outcomes of Culturally & Ethnically Diverse Populations |
Underrepresented Groups in Nursing such as: |
Qualitative Methods; Interpretive and Descriptive Phenomenology |
Assistant Professor; Director; Undergraduate; DNP Projects; Faculty Adviser |
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Laurie Martinez, |
Resilience |
Adolescents & Older Adults |
hermeneutic phenomenology and mixed methods |
Assistant Professor |
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David O. Newman
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Research Methods, Applied Statistical Techniques |
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Qualitative & Quantitative Methods, Mixed Methods, Meta-Analysis, Advanced Statistics: Multiple Linear & Logistic Regression, Discontinuity Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Interrupted Time Series, Linear & Non-Linear Mixed Models, SEM, Hazard and Survival Analysis, Rasch Modeling & Psychometric |
Graduate Research Projects, Doctoral Student Research Projects, Dissertation Committee, Faculty Research Advising |
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Maria de los Angeles Ortega
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Nursing as Caring; Healing Environments; Healthy Aging; Aging in Place; Gerontology; Geriatrics; Transitions of Care; Life Transitions; Person-Centered Care; Post-Acute Care; Long-Term Care; Care Coordination; Population Health; Cognitive Impairment; Community Outreach/Engagement; Nurse-managed Care; Minority Health; Mental Health |
Older Adults; Skilled Nursing Post Open Heart Surgery; Nursing Home Residents and Staff/Health Care Providers; Long Term & Assisted Living; Memory Disorders; Dementia specific Care/Adult Day Center; Family Caregivers; Hispanic Older adults; and Vulnerable populations |
Qualitative Method; Clinical Research; Translational Research; Mixed Method Research |
DNP & Evidence-Based capstone projects, Collaboration with colleagues from CON, COM, Psychology, & Social Work Undergrad and graduate clinical practicum & Directed Study; Health Administration Practicum/Internship, Geriatric Clerkship Medical Students 3rd year |
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Beth Pratt
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Mental Health, Social Genomics, Biomarkers, Human-animal Interaction, Animal-assisted Interventions, Community Engagement |
Military, Veterans, Military and Veteran Families, Women |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Community-based Participatory Research |
Assistant Professor, Undergraduate courses and research projects |
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Narciso Quidley-Rodriguez
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Sexual Health & Wellness, HIV Prevention & Treatment, Mental Health & Wellness, Coming Out Experiences/ Sexual Orientation Disclosure |
LGBTQI Community, specifically: |
Qualitative Methodologies, specifically: Grounded Theory |
Assistant Professor, Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Instructor |
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Marlaine C. Smith |
Symptom Management with Touch Therapies, Holistic Health/Complementary Therapies such as Massage, Therapeutic Touch, Acupressure, Aromatherapy, Sound/Music, Testing Caring-based Models, Testing Unitary Caring Theory, Palliative and End-of-life Care |
End of Life, Adults with Life-threatening Illnesses |
Multi-site RCTs, Intervention Designs (Quasi-experimental and Experimental), Evaluation Studies (Mixed Methods), Qualitative Methods, Phenomenology (Van Kaam, va Manen, Giorgi, Colaizzi), Ethnography, Qualitative Descriptive, Narrative, Human Becoming Research Method, Praxis Method (RAP, Newman), CBPR, UAI (Cowling) |
Dissertation Chair/Committee |
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Armiel Suriaga |
Substance Use, Misuse and Abuse (SUMA), Improving Nursing Pedagogy, Healthy Aging, Social Determinants of Health and Diversity and Inclusion |
Older Adults, nursing students/faculty |
Quantitative, or Qualitative or Mixed Method |
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Ruth M Tappen
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Alzheimer's and Related Cognitive Impairment, Acculturation and Cross-Cultural Issues in Testing, Health, and Health Behaviors, Care Transitions, Especially to home and Long-term Care Facilities |
Community-Dwelling Older Adults in a Variety of Settings, African American, Afro-Caribbean, European American, Hispanic American; Nursing Home residents and their families; Memory disorder patients and caregivers |
Intervention Studies, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Approaches and Mixed-Method Design; Quality Improvement |
Undergraduate Directed Study (Special Topics Only), Graduate Research Projects (1-3 credits), Doctoral Level Research Projects, Dissertation Chair/Committee |
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Christine S Toledo |
Women's health: related to the topics of breastfeeding, maternal mental health, and HIV in older women |
Women |
Mixed Methods, Quantitative, Secondary Analyses |
Assistant Professor |
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Lisa Ann Wiese
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Knowledge, Detection, Prevention, and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias |
Rural Older Adults, Rural Appalachian and other Rural Populations |
CBPR, Quantitative Methods |
Doctoral Dissertation and Comprehensive Exam Committee Member/DNP Evidence-based Projects, Honors Undergraduate Student Theses |
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Christine Williams |
Mental health of older adults, living with dementia, spouse caregiving, interventions to improve social relations among older adults with and without cognitive impairment, communication interventions |
Older adults, older adults with cognitive impairment, people with ADRD, family caregivers |
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods |
Psychiatric Mental Health graduate courses |